Drake Bell, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and more from this week in entertainment

William Shatner thinks Gene Roddenberry “is twirling in his grave” over new Star Trek

With a property as sprawling as Star Trek, of course everyone has their own opinions on which entry is the best and which entry is their favorite. (Those might be two distinct answers!) It shouldn’t be a surprise that OG Star Trek star William Shatner thinks OG Star Trek is the truest version, not just because of his involvement but because of creator Gene Roddenberry’s particular vision. “He was in the military, and he was a policeman,” Shatner says in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “There are strict rules and you abide by the rules. Around that, [the writers] had to write the drama.” Read More

Drake Bell responds as Ned’s Declassified cast jokes about Nickelodeon allegations

Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV aired its final episodes on Monday, and the Investigation Discovery docuseries has already made waves with fans of late ’90s to early 2000s Nickelodeon as well as child stars of that era. Dan Schneider’s television empire spawned lots of stars, but his weren’t the only shows on the network. Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide aired concurrently with Drake And Josh; the stars of that show have shared (and overshared) about their time as child actors on their podcast. Their experience was apparently quite different than what was going on at Schneider’s Bakery, as Devon Werkheiser quite ungracefully put it in a recent livestream. Read More

Nickelodeon exposé Quiet On Set stirs responses from fans, former employees, and Drake Bell

Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV aired its first episodes on Investigation Discovery on Sunday, prompting its audience to reexamine the Dan Schneider era of Nickelodeon. The allegations in the docuseries range from Schneider creating a toxic work environment for children and adults alike (particularly for women) to one of the adult actors from All That sexually abusing the young star Drake Bell. The four-part docuseries continues on Monday night (and can be streamed afterwards on Max), but the first two episodes are prompting responses from the doc’s subjects and from others who were connected to Nickelodeon at the time. – Mary Kate Carr Read More

Drake Bell asks fans to “take it a little easy” on Josh Peck

The response to ID’s Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV has been swift and extensive. Among the most discussed documentary series in recent memory, Quiet On Set exposed the systematic abuse that befell young Nickelodeon stars by the people expected to protect them. Chief among the accusers is Drake Bell, the star of Drake & Josh, who says he was abused by former Nickelodeon dialogue coach Brian Peck. Bell accuses Brian Peck of sexual abuse beginning when he was 15. He said the abuse was “extensive” and “brutal.” Read More

Here’s your first look at Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which “reenergized” Tim Burton’s love of filmmaking

’80s nostalgia never dies, and neither does Betelgeuse, the immortal demon who terrorized the Deetz family in Tim Burton’s beloved horror comedy. According to Burton and star Michael Keaton, ideas for raising the undead have been thrown around since the first one premiered (“Beetlejuice and the Haunted Mansion, Beetlejuice Goes West, whatever. Lots of things came up,” says Burton), but the sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will finally hit theaters on September 6. Now, more than 30 years after his original introduction, we have our first look at the ghoul himself (below), secured by Entertainment Weekly. Read More

For Kristen Stewart, Happiest Season wasn’t the happiest experience

Kristen Stewart has had a heck of a time getting her projects through the Hollywood machine without them being torn to bits. Before making the jump back to indies, she tried her hand at Charlie’s Angles, which she thought was “a good idea at the time” but “hated making.” Now, she’s saying Happiest Season, the lesbian rom-com touted as the first of its kind, wasn’t the most cheerful set either. Read More

Late Night With The Devil creators address those viral AI images

The temptation to use artificial intelligence instead of human artifice has come to haunt the film industry as much as any ghost. The latest title to come under fire for caving into this particular poltergeist is IFC Films’ Late Night With The Devil, a found-footage horror flick from Australian sibling duo, Cameron and Colin Cairnes, that follows the entirety of a fictional late-night broadcast from the ‘70s as it spirals out of control due to a Satanic possession. Read More

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice teaser: “The Juice is loose”

Congratulations to anybody who had “slowed-down pop/choral cover of ‘Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)” on their bingo card of things they’d see or hear in a teaser trailer for Tim Burton’s long-delayed sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, because you damn sure nailed it: The mutilated strains of the Harry Belafonte classic, rendered appropriately joyless in the style of every Hollywood trailer of the last 15 years, is the first thing you hear when the brand new teaser kicks off. Read More

Olivia Colman has Barbie money despite being cut from Barbie

Olivia Colman isn’t too worried that she was cut out of Barbie

Mario Van Peebles just wants to work with people who are fun to work with

The director and actor also reminisces on the impact of New Jack City